Caster retainer



Dec. 19, 1922. 1,439,333.

3. A. SCHULTIIE.

CASTER RETAINER.

FILED FEB. 24. 1922.

Patented Dec. 19, 1922. E

GEORGE A. SOHULIE, OF NEVIARK, NEW J cAs'rEn anrninnn.

Application filed February 24, 1922. Serial No. 539,011.

To dZZ whom itmcg concern: flange at its upper end for retaining said Be it known that I, Gnonen A. SCHULTE, a slotted end portions 7 and 8 in engagement citizen of the United States, residin at therewith. Said slots 5 and 6 allow the end Newark, in the county of Essex and tate portions 7 and 8 of the spring member to 5 of New Jersey, have invented certain new slideon the sleeve 4: so that the sides of said and useful Improvements in Caster Romember may frictionally engage the intainers, of which the following is a full, ternal walls of the socket or hollow leg 3 clear, and exact specification. when said spring member is inserted into This invention relates to caster retainers, the same and the sides of the member are 10 and has for its object to provide improved compressed thereby, as shown in Figures means for detachably holding a caster in the 1 and. 3. 1 c hollow leg or other socket of furniture. The disk 1 is formed with a stepped A special object is to provide a combined flange 2 around its periphery to fit in the socket closing disk and internal wall enopening of the socket of hollow leg 3, where- 15 gaging spring which may be removably by the retainer is centered therein and supfitted in the socket of the furniture and with ported in said socket. The internal diamwhich a caster may be detachably connected. eter of the sleeve 4: is of a size to fit around Other objects will appear as the description the ridge 14 on the lower end of the shank proceeds. 13 of a caster 15 of any suitable type, see

20 The invention will be first hereinafter Figure 1. Said shank of the caster also described in connection with the accompanyhas an enlarged head or knob 12 at its upper ing drawings, which constitute part of this end, of substantially the same diameter as specification, and then more specifically dethe ridge 14, whereby it may be readily fined in the claims at the end of the depassed through said sleeve when the caster 25 scription. is attached to the retainer.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein -To hold the caster in position in the resimilar reference characters are used to tainer, the upper portion of the spring memdesignate corresponding parts throughout her 9 is formed with a central opening arthe several views ranged in vertical alinement with the sleeve 30 Figure 1 is a central longitudinal section a and surrounded with resilient spurs or of a caster retainer constructed substantially fingers 11 adapted to engage the shank 13 in accordance with this invention, the same just below the head 12 when said shank is a being shown applied to a hollow furniture fully inserted into the retainer, as shown in leg and having a caster shank engaged there- Figures 1 and 3. When the caster shank is 35 with. thus positioned in the retainer, the ridge 14L Figure 2 is a side view of the caster refits snugly in the sleeve 4 and prevents lattainer in detail. eral play or rattling thereof when the fur- Figure 3 is a plan View of the retainer and niture is moved on the caster. caster shank as shown in Figure 1, the hol- The engagement of the slotted end por- 40 low furniture being shown in section and tions 7 and 8 of the spring member 9 with Figure t is a bottom plan view of the rethe sleeve 4 of the disk 1 connects these parts tainer, as shown in Figure 2. of the retainer so that they cannot be sep- The retainer comprises a socket closing .arated one from the other. When said redisk 1, and a spring'member 9 connected to tainer is inserted in the socket or hollow leg 45 said disk and bent into substantially recof the fi irniture. the spring member retains tangular form with the lower portions of its it in place but allowsit to be removed when sides normally spread apart to frictionally desired. The caster shank 13 may be enengage the internal walls of the socket or gaged with or disengaged from said retainer hollow leg 3 of the furniture. At the botwhen the latter is in the socket or hollow 50 tom said spring member 9 has overlapping leg 3, or when separated therefrom.

end portions 7 and 8 havingelongated slots I claim: 5 and 6, respectively, which loosely engage 1.111 a caster retainer, the combination an upwardly extending tubular sleeve or with a disk for closinga furniture socket, ferrule 4- formed centrally of the disk 1 of a spring member for frictionally engag- 55 and having an outwardly extending annular ing the internal walls of the socket, said spring member being inseparably connected to said disk and adapted to slide thereon for the purpose specified.

2. in a caster retainer, the combination with a member to engage the mouth of a furniture socket, of a spring member for lrictionally engaging the internal walls of the socket, said mouth engaging member having a hollow sleeve for the passage of a caster shank, and said spring member having slotted portions loosely fitting around said sleeve for the purpose specified.

3. In a caster retainer, the combination with a member to engage the mouth'of a furniture socket, of .a. spring member for frictionally engaging the internal walls of the socket, said mouth engaging member having a hollow sleeve forthe passage of a caster shank, said spring member having slotted portions loosely fitting around said sleeve, and an abutment on said sleeve for portions of the spring a caster shank, said spring member having slotted portions loosely fitting around said sleeve, there being an opening in said spring member in vertical alinement with said sleeve through which opening the caster shank is also adapted to pass, and resilient means at the margin of said opening for detachably retaining the caster shank therein. I

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

enoiaen A. SCHULTE. 

